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LIVE: Cybersecurity Specialists Weigh In On Williston-based Company’s Security Breach

You might want to keep a very close watch on your prescriptions. And your email.

April 29, 2022

Emily Welker,

It’s a cybersecurity breach that’s affected more than half a million people. And may have left their most private information — their health data — exposed for months. According to cybersecurity specialists at Check Point Software, what happened to Williston, N.D.-based Adaptive Health Integrations is pretty common, for security breaches. It can take months for companies to discover they’ve been…

Pet Connection: Meet Camper

Make this Camper extra-happy with a furever home.

April 28, 2022

Emily Welker,

Swoon. That’s the sound the collective staff of KVRR-TV made when Camper came in to the station this morning. The one-year-old buff domestic shorthair has one of the sweetest personalities we’ve seen in a long time. He was scooped up from the Wahpeton area by rescue workers at Homeward Animal Shelter, where he’d possibly been living on the street, given…

CoreCon And Shellback Tech

Gearing up to support a great cause at this year's CoreCon.

April 22, 2022

Emily Welker,

This year’s CoreCon is shaping up to be a fun one, and one of the best parts is the charity the pop culture convention is featuring this year. Shellback Tech is the brainchild of war veteran Travis Peacock. He started it 4 years ago in the region. The program builds free gaming systems for disabled veterans and first responders. Peacock…

Survey: Anxiety in workplace highest since 2020

April 21, 2022

Site Staff,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A new survey gives insight on how the “return to normal” procedure has been more difficult for some than others. The survey from Future Forum collected over 10 thousand results across the globe where they report stress and anxiety levels in the workplace are at its highest since June of 2020. A clinical psychologist at Essentia…

LIVE: BCBS ND and The “Tag 5” Corporate Challenge

Tag -- you're it.

April 21, 2022

Emily Welker,

Spring racing season is getting closer. And now, you can put some spring in your step, and in some deserving kids’, by using the the power of social media. Blue Cross Blue Shield is asking us, and our colleagues, to join the “Tag 5” Corporate Challenge in the BNSF Railway Friday Night 5K at the Essentia Marathon coming up next…

Sanford Health’s Equity in Education scholarship gives people a second chance

It awards five thousand dollars to help students that are sometimes overlooked.

April 19, 2022

Site Staff,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Last year Sanford Health started the Equity in Education Scholarship. It awards $5,000 to help students that are sometimes overlooked. A selection committee picked by the Sanford Health Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion reviews the applicants and the essays they send in to qualify, they also have to be a full-time student and have a…

Fargo restaurant describes how rising egg prices impact its bottom line

April 14, 2022

Site Staff,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A chicken and an egg problem and a perfect storm involving Easter, inflation and bird flu are forcing farmers to kill some of their egg-laying hens, reducing the country’s egg supply and raising prices. Consumers across the country are finding no eggs on the shelves or they’re paying nearly three dollars a dozen. That’s three times…

Mahnomen patient takes on his therapists in sled hockey

Hope Inc. sponsored the games at Cullen Hockey Center in Moorhead

April 10, 2022

Site Staff,

MOORHEAD, MINN. (KVRR) – Therapists and a patient’s family battle it out on the ice at the Cullen Hockey Center in Moorhead. Hope Inc. regularly hosts fundraisers for people with disabilities so they can be involved in adaptive sports. “It’s a program my therapist encouraged me to get into. They play all sorts of things, hockey, softball, basketball, so…

Able Games continue into day two of competition

The Able games continue this weekend athletes of all fitness levels leaving it all on the mat

April 10, 2022

Site Staff,

WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR)- “We’re really excited to bring a functional fitness event to Fargo and then not only that but one that incorporates people with special needs, that gets them on the floor competing as well. That’s the most important part the inclusivity of it,” said Connor McGovern, Able Games partner. These athletes competed in multiple divisions like a coability…

LIVE: Getting Ready For the Goddess Gala

There's just enough time left to find an outfit.

April 8, 2022

Emily Welker,

There are goddesses who walk among us. And believe it or not, you may be one of them. For a single night, the organizers of the “Goddess Gala,” coming next month to the metro, are inviting you to join them. Get yourself gussied up in your most glamorous eveningwear, adorn yourself whichever way you feel most glorious, and summon your…